Faunae insectorum Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten

by: Panzer, Georg Wolfgang Franz, 1755-1829; Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848, ill; McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1792

Topics: Hemiptera, Hemiptera

Publisher: [Nuremberg : Felsecker

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Handwritten t.p. and table of contents

Text and ill. have been excerpted from Panzer's Faunae insectorum Germanicae initia and rebound in a new arrangement by one of the book's previous owners

Panzer's plates and their letterpress descriptions are mounted on blank leaves facing each other, with 2 plates or 2 letterpress descriptions combined on each leaf

Plates signed by Jakob Sturm

Cf. H.A. Hagen, Bib. entomologica, Bd. 2, Seite 27, Nr. 6; BM (Nat. hist.) v. 4, p. 1510

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SCNHRB copy 39088009549965 has stamp and autograph of a former owner: W.L. McAtee

SCNHRB copy has an autograph, apparently of a former owner, mounted just after the title leaf: Ex libris Du Cluseii[?]

SCNHRB copy has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 319973

SCNHRB copy has later green half-leather binding with embossed cloth-covered boards and brown endpapers